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AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
340 AM CDT MON OCT 12 2015

.TODAY AND TONIGHT...

A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WILL PUSH THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLES BY 12Z TO 14Z THIS MORNING. WEST TO
NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 KNOTS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND INCREASE TO
AROUND 15 TO 25 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE
COLD FRONT. HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL BE SHARPLY COOLER...ABOUT 15
TO 20 DEGREES COOLER...FROM YESTERDAYS HIGHS AS 1020-1025 MB SURFACE
HIGH BUILDS SOUTH INTO THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY
DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE 10 TO 20 MPH RANGE FROM WEST TO
EAST. NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH LACK OF ANY
APPRECIABLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WILL RESULT IN
DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH TONIGHT.

SCHNEIDER

.FIRE WEATHER...

FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING...20 FOOT WINDS
WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND INCREASE INTO THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE WITH
GUSTS TO NEAR 35 MPH. AS DRIER AIR ADVECTS INTO THE PANHANDLES BEHIND
THE COLD FRONT BY THIS AFTERNOON...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL INTO
THE 15 TO 20 PERCENT RANGE MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE
BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE 20 FOOT WIND SPEEDS WILL GRADUALLY
DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST AS WELL THIS AFTERNOON BUT ARE EXPECTED TO
REMAIN IN THE 15 TO 20 MPH RANGE WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS ACROSS THE
EASTERN PANHANDLES AND THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH ABOUT 6
PM OR 7 PM THIS EVENING. AS A RESULT...ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN AROUND 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON AND
END BY 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

NO ADDITIONAL ELEVATED OR EVEN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK AS EITHER RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE 20 PERCENT OR THE 20 FOOT
WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW 15 MPH.

SCHNEIDER


.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

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